Taylor Lorenz

So they're just inherently less predatory.

We could mandate that all of these social media platforms federate, that you don't have to use Instagram.

You know, maybe these kids, like, they don't want to be left off totally socially, but maybe they use an alternative to Instagram, but they can still access certain parts, you know, certain content from Instagram that's fed into this alternative app that's in total grayscale and doesn't, you know, just has a reverse cron feed or whatever.

But it's about giving people choice because I don't think we want the government controlling content.

And I don't think we want parents.

Every child is different.

What's appropriate for one child at 15 is not appropriate for another child at 15.

And we should trust parents and families to make those decisions.

Well, it's like, does your kid have Instagram?

Yes or no?

It's this binary thing.

And yeah, you can set teen accounts.

But it's like, there's not choices.

What if we had 20 choices instead of Instagram that were all really similar?

And kids could all connect.

They could have the same social network on all of them.

We can mandate changes to these companies.

We can also say, hey, Meta, you continue to use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to shut down any and all competition.

You can't do that anymore.

We're reforming that law.